.Planet Tserovani.

During the secession wars in Abkhazia and South Ossetia during the early 1990s and in 2008 240.000 ethnical georgians were expelled. This group of internally displaced persons (IDP) makes 6 percent of the georgian population.

These uprooted georgians are not able to resettle at their former homesteads since 25 years. A return is impossible as the conflicts aren´t solved at all. Already the second generation born after the war raise in rotten former soviet sanatriums or in newly built settlements across the beautiful mountainous country of Georgia.

„Home“ for them is a legend serving as mental support for the elderly living in memories of former times to survive in a strange environment. Even all IDP are georgians most of them never arrived emotionally at their new destination in Georgia. Their reality doesen´t feel to them as being at home. They keep staying strange in their own country.